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Of Course It's Tireless. It's a Sub.
Greenpeace activists from Spain, Germany, Austria, and Italy boarded a nuclear-powered submarine from Britain today to protest its presence in Gibraltar, a British colony on Spain’s southern tip. The activists […]
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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision
Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Tuesday, 16 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador Here I am, an environmental manager who […]
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Swan Song
An Argentine court ordered the government this week to prevent a British ship, the Pacific Swan, from carrying spent nuclear fuel into the country’s “jurisdictional” waters. The country’s Foreign Ministry […]
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People for Chapter 11
People for the USA!, the national nonprofit wise-use group, is closing shop later this month, due to a lack of funding and a decline in membership. The group began with […]
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Argwings and a Prayer
Kenyan journalist Argwings Odera was arrested and tortured last month for his attempt to report on protests against the Sondu-Miriu Dam being built on a river that drains into Lake […]
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Anti-Norton Virus
National environmental leaders held a press conference this morning in Washington, D.C., to announce their formal opposition to Gale Norton, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary. Enviros earlier this week […]
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Neat-o Research Topic: The Effects of Harpooning on Whale Mortality
The U.S. and Japan have teamed up to ask the International Whaling Commission to evaluate whether killing whales to study them produces better research findings than studying them using non-lethal […]
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With a "Whoosh Whoosh" Here and a "Whir Whir" There
The border of Washington and Oregon will soon be home to the world’s largest wind farm, producing enough power for 70,000 homes in 11 Western states. The wind-power company FPL […]
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The Best Defense Is a Bad Offense
Enviros have taken offense at a 1989 speech by Gale Norton, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary, in which she suggested that property owners have a “right to pollute.” Worse, […]
